Participants in governance and service delivery training sessions In Kibuku District
CIDD-UG enhances civic consciousness among 125 community and COBs leaders in...
Capacity building and mentorship continues to be the core of CIDD-UG intervention in championing actions towards enhancing young people and women active participation in governance and service delivery improvement agenda in Bukedi sub region. CIDD-UG is alive to the fact that if it has to enhance... .../Read More!
Young people undergoing practical computer usage sessions at CIDD-UG digital Hub.
Addressing the challenges of youth empowerment and job creation in eastern...
CIDD-UG in this reporting period is focusing on digital experience and leadership due to rapid growth of digital technology nationally and globally and yet not matched by young peoples’ capacities to adapt. Digital skills and solutions are essential to addressing the challenges of youth empowerment... .../Read More!
Participants pose for a group photo after training on Human rights and use of digital tools to reduce gender inequality.
Using ICT and digital tools for enhancing socio-economic transformation of...
Human rights, including women’s rights, are as important online as they are offline. If gender dimensions of ICT are identified and addressed, ICT can be a powerful catalyst for political and social empowerment of women and young people, and a tool to promote gender equality. This is the reason... .../Read More!
Some of the Young People Undergoing Training on Evidence Based Advocacy conducted by CIDD-UG
CIDD-UG Builds Capacity of 125 Young People from Eastern Uganda in Social...
Budgets are the blueprint for resource mobilization, allocation, and utilization in communities grappling with poverty and social vulnerabilities. Undertaking evidence based and informed successful budget advocacy requires that facts must be laid on table to be able to influence decisions of... .../Read More!
Young people undergoing a digital skilling Programme at CIDD-UG digital Hub
Daring to Shift: CIDD-UG uses ICT to Help Accelerate Progress towards Young...
ICT can help accelerate progress towards every single one of the 17 SDGs. It creates prerequisites for being part of the global network and links dynamic flow of information, fast communication, and easy access to improved opportunities for young people from rural populations. It also reduces on... .../Read More!
Call for Applications for the ICT, Entrepreneurship and 21st Century skills...
Are you a youth? Are you in school or out of school? Are you passionate about leadership? Are you resident in Pallisa or Kibuku? This is a perfect opportunity for you!!! CIDD-UG welcomes all eligible and interested youth to apply and take part in our digital skills leadership training program, to... .../Read More!
...but Are women and young people aware about the intentions of the PDM?
Making PDM work for Women “PDM as a magic bullet for empowering women in Uganda”
The goal of Parish Development Model (PDM) is socio economic transformation for movement of Uganda from peasant to middle income country. It is based on improved productivity of households and enterprise at parish level as a fulcrum of development intervention. However, participation of poor women... .../Read More!
CIDD-UG Leads other CSOs to Demand Improved Healthcare in Pallisa District.
Healthcare is a driver of the overall community wellbeing. Effective Rural healthcare has the potential to generate economic vitality and create professional, non-professional and enable masses to concentrate on ancillary green employment opportunities that can in turn translate into household... .../Read More!
CIDD-UG Dialogues with Health Practitioners and Other Service Providers to...
The right to health is not a right to be healthy: it is a right to facilities, goods, services and conditions that are conductive to the realisation of the right to health, such as water, sanitation, good environment etc. At the heart of the right to health is a functioning health system,... .../Read More!
Leaving No One Behind: CIDD-UG Strikes a Partnership with Busitema University...
Leaving No One Behind: CIDD-UG Strikes a Partnership with Busitema University to run Public Lectures to Induce Public Private Partnership for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). Partnerships for the 2030 Agenda should be inclusive, within principle of an equal weight of CSOs, Academia,... .../Read More!
Okiror Francis CIDD-UG plants a tree at PALLISA CPS as The RDC Pallisa Mr. Magid Dikusoka, Town clerk, DPC Look on.
Getting Started: CIDD-UG engages Local Leadership for Climate Change
Do you know that our inaction now leads to higher costs later? The risks we are facing on climate change are of today, right now and we need to act now. “As CIDD-UG, we have been engaging with various institutions and the Local population in order to confront the impacts of climate change as well... .../Read More!
National Hygiene and Sanitation Week 2022, Come we Clean our Town
National Hygiene and Sanitation Week - theme: Good Hygiene and Sanitation for Strengthening COVID-19 Response. Come we clean our town, Pallisa from 24th March, 2022 to 4th April, 2022.
Public Lecture at Busitema University on SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
Topic: Putting Hygiene and Sanitation into Perspective: "Is it sanitation hardware or behavioral change that will lead the world into achievement of SDG 6 on Clean Water and Sanitation?"
8% of UWEP Enterprises are Successful in Pallisa District – CIDD-UG Research
Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) is one of the core programmes under the second National Development Plan (GoU, 2015). UWEP, whose operations started in Financial Year 2015/16, was designed to address the challenges women face in undertaking economically viable enterprises including... .../Read More!
Afande Okwamor james OC CFPU PALLISA CPS- during anti GBV community senstisation meeting in kameki s/c pallisa District.
CIDD-UG, ACTION AID PDLG AND UPF stage a joint spirited fight against GBV...
Gender violence is, in general, related to a predominant cultural model based on maleness. The fight against gender violence either against women or young girls cannot leave out of consideration those actions in support of the cultural changes that have to deal with the gender inequalities and... .../Read More!
From Right, Hon JeniferKacha Namiyangu, the RDC and CAO Pallisa during the IHR day celebrations in Olok S/C pallisa
“Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now”- December 2021
CIDD-UG joined the rest of the world in the Global 16 Days of Activism Campaign against Gender Based Violence (GBV) 2021 in the COVID 19 Pandemic era. This annual event began on the 25th November, which is the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women and ran up to the 10th... .../Read More!
Councilors brainstorming on how to improve leadership outcomes during leaders dialogue meeting in Kibuku District
CIDD-UG uses post 2021 General Election dialogues to rebuild trust and...
The 2021 scientific General elections in Uganda were conducted with rise in discontentment among the actors. This bread lots of conflicts across the board and yet not matched by requisite civic education that would have promoted skills on peaceful coexistence among political actors, but also... .../Read More!
A mother in Agule Sub County calls for strict implementation of laws on property rights for women
CIDD-UG Creates A Platform For Women To Raise Their Voice On Issues That Affect...
The ability of citizens to make their voices heard and hold their governments to account is central to good governance. Its absence facilitates prevalence of that environment in which corruption can flourish and citizens are unable to assess the decisions of their leaders or make informed choices... .../Read More!